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The Antarctic Plateau Interferometer. BAAS, American Astronomical Society Meeting 205#181.03, 2004 (Ref: 11905)
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The Antarctic Plateau Interferometer (API) is an instrument concept capable of extensive unique discovery space science in a variety of areas including exoplanets, accretion, YSO's, and AGNs. To study exoplanets in the habitable zone, API would use three 2 meter class telescopes…

A robotic instrument for measuring high altitude atmospheric turbulence. SPIE, 2004 (Ref: 11901)
Category 3: Conference paper

To properly characterize the atmospheric properties of a site for a future large telescope or interferometer, it is insufficient to … measure quantities, such as the full-width at half-maximum of a stellar image, that have been integrated over the entire … atmosphere.

Extrasolar Planet Science with the Antarctic Planet Interferometer. Techniques and instrumentation for the detection of exoplanets, SPIE, 2004 (Ref: 11899)
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The primary limitation to ground based astronomy is the Earth's atmosphere. The atmosphere above the … Antarctic plateau is fundamentally di erent in many regards compared to the atmosphere at temperate sites. The … extreme altitude…

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